OK, before we get on to tonight's post proper, here's a peek at a bit of the afghan WIP:- When it's done, I'll buy y'all a drink to say thank you for your encouragement. And I probably won't crochet any more afghans for a wee while... although some even crazier projects are in the mental pipeline. Anyway, this is mostly a piece about yarn-bombing. Because as I've posted before, plans have been afoot to yarn-bomb the house. And I had a little reminder to get on with it the other day, Continue Reading
Weaving in ends (or possibly obliterating the hairy blighters with napalm).
Yesterday, I promised a crochet post. Predictably, it's about the rainbow stained glass window afghan. It's going to be a few weeks until it's finished I think, given that it'll end up more than two metres across - that's a lot of stitches. Someone on Ravelry posted that they'd finished the same design in more conventional colours within "about two weeks". Even allowing for this meaning "almost three weeks", and even supposing they spent that fortnight-and-a-bit omitting Continue Reading
Yarn-bombing the house. Just maybe.
The crochet stained glass window is going well, but I don't want to saturate this blog with minute-by-minute pictures of every stitch. (Well actually I do, but I won't. Maybe I should introduce a knitting/crochet webcam. Though that might result in a few too many views of me crocheting in my pyjamas at 3am.) But other plans and ideas keep forming... The other day, I found this rather lovely image on Wildcat Designs' blog:- Photo from http://catameringue.blogspot.co.uk/. Reproduced Continue Reading
Crochet therapy
The end of a stressful day of tantrumming toddler twinnage. The rainbow stained glass window is progressing well, assisted by a two-hour bout of insomnia last night. Can you see the little popcorn stitches? I've reached about 60cm diameter (24 inches), and the final thing will be about 2 metres (>2 yards) across. I love this pattern! It's by Julene Watson, and the increases and pattern are perfectly calculated so that it remains beautifully flat as it grows. And it's cheaper than Continue Reading
Crochet stained glass window
I'm so excited about this project. I'm talking wake-at-4am-and-can't-resist-doing-a-bit levels of excitement. Sitting in the corner of my study for several months has been a large project bag (did I mention that spare curtain fabric is perfect for making drawstring project bags?) containing 51 balls of Rico Design Creative Cotton Aran in a rainbow of colours, plus lots and lots of black. It was bought with a specific purpose in mind. (You know about my stash aversion already, yeah?) But I was Continue Reading
Water, water, everywhere.
It's wet in Oxfordshire right now. Really really wet. (North America, I can't help but envy your polar vortex. I've seen so many beautiful snowy/icy photographs on people's blogs.) Here, there's flooding. We're all about the Thames in this bit of the UK, as its early waters wind their way down through Oxfordshire and Berkshire. On Wednesday morning I had a medical appointment in Oxford, and on the way home, I drove the long-suffering twinnage a twisting route that roughly followed the Thames Continue Reading